INFORMS Releases

CATONSVILLE, MD, December 10, 2020 – INFORMS, the leading international association for operations research and analytics professionals, announced ECS as a Certified Analytics Professional (CAP) Preferred Employer.

INFORMS, the leading association for operations research (O.R.) and analytics professionals, has awarded the 2020 Daniel H. Wagner Prize for Excellence in the Practice of Advanced Analytics and Operations Research to researchers from The Pennsylvania State University, The University of Texas at Austin and University of British Columbia for their work to increase efficiency in product planning and supply in agribusiness. The award was presented today at the Virtual 2020 INFORMS Annual Meeting. 

CATONSVILLE, MD, November 3, 2020 – A new research study has exposed the mindset that helps many become more committed to a long-term personal finance savings program. The research found that when savers perceive the amounts they need to save on more granular terms, such as $5 per day as opposed to $150 per month, they are more likely to commit to and sustain a personal savings regimen.

INFORMS, the leading international association of operations research and analytics professionals, announced Dr. David Simchi-Levi, Ph.D., has been awarded the prestigious Impact Prize. Dr. Simchi-Levi is a renowned professor of engineering systems and the director of the Data Science Lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is the current editor-in-chief of the INFORMS journal Management Science and the past editor-in-chief of the INFORMS journal Operations Research.

CATONSVILLE, MD, October 19, 2020 – Most people have seen or heard from a friend, neighbor or family member about a product or service they’ve used and how their experience was. It’s called observational learning or word-of-mouth. These communications don’t provide an unbiased assessment of true quality. Given this, businesses are faced with the difficult decision of determining when and how to spend their ad dollars. New research in the INFORMS journal Marketing Science finds when consumers learn about products/services from other consumers, a business may actually want to spend more money to credibly signal its quality.